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Nuhmbuh 17 cleared his throat and stood up. "Our story actually begins before we were born…"

"A couple of years before we were born, Father decided it was time to retire. However, he first needed to find somebody to take his place." Numbuh 17 hesitated slightly before continuing. "Father traveled the world trying to find someone he thought was worthy enough to be his successor. It took him two years, but eventually he remembered an old KND operative. This particular operative had been decommissioned many years earlier, and had recently married his childhood sweetheart."

"Who was this operative?" asked Numbuh 362

Numbuh 17 shrugged. "Nobody knows. Father managed to erase his name from the KND files."

Rachael nodded her head and motioned the boy to go on.

"Anyway," said Numbuh 17 "For reasons unknown to us, Father decided that this operative would be his successor. Father also knew that it would be difficult to convince him to become his successor. Something had gone wrong during the operative's decommissioning, and –while he still didn't remember the Kids Next Door- he did still have his love of children, and the need to protect them from evil adults. So, for three months Father waited and watched, trying to discover the best way to convince him to take over." Numbuh 17 coughed. "Great. Now I'm losing my voice." he grumbled. "Numbuh 15, can you take over?"

"Sure boss." said Numbuh 15 as he vainly attempted to swat a bug flying around him. "Father discovered that the man had a terrible job with a very low paycheck. He often heard the man telling his wife that 'she deserved better' and 'as soon as he could he'd find a better job'. Father watched as the man answered a ton of job ads, but he never got a new job. One day, Father knocked on the man's door, disguised as a businessman. Father told the guy that a friend of his had given him his resume and that he wanted to hire him. At first the guy didn't believe him, but after showing him a ton of fake papers and stuff, the guy was convinced. At first Father just sent him on a bunch of stupid errands that had nothing whatsoever to do with training him. The guy was sorta confused as to why he was getting paid so much for such an easy job, but whenever he saw the house he was able to buy for his now pregnant wife, he sorta just forgot about it. Eventually," Numbuh 15 hesitated slightly, unsure of what he was and wasn't allowed to tell.

"Eventually," said Numbuh 17 who had obviously gotten his voice back "Father managed to corrupt him. We don't know how, but Father almost succeeded with turning him totally evil."

"Almost?" asked Sonya "What do you mean by 'almost'?"

"Father thought he had succeeded in creating another version of himself." said Numbuh 17. "He did manage to make him pretty mean, but he never managed to fully corrupt him."

"How is that possible?" asked Numbuh 362. "There've been plenty of adults who love kids that've been easily corrupted. What made this guy different?"

"Well he did still have some memories." said Numbuh 17 "He actually remembered a little bit of his childhood. Remember I said he married his childhood sweetheart? We're pretty sure he met her through the KND. We don't know for sure, but we think the fact that a piece of his childhood was always with him helped halt the transformation."

"So what?" asked Wally "So you've got an evil cruddy adult living down the street. What's the big deal?"

"The 'deal'" said Numbuh 17 "is that he had become Father's successor. Because he had his good side and his bad side constantly at war with each other, he… well… he sorta went insane."

"We all got our good side and our bad side." said Abby "Numbuh 5 doesn't think that's enough to make someone go insane."

"What you gotta understand," began Numbuh 17 "is that thanks to his faulty decommissioning, this guy was more sympathetic towards children then any other adult in the world. Father had trained him to hate children with more hate then most adults have. You've got the battle of good vs. evil on a much, much larger scale. That's enough to make anybody go insane."

"So what happened after this guy went insane?" asked Numbuh 363

"He turned into a villain with serious mood swings." said Numbuh 17 "One minute he'd be a kid's best friend and hand out free ice cream, and the next he'd be kidnapping kids and forcing them to eat broccoli."

All the kids in the room shuddered.

"And as time went on," continued Numbuh 17 "It just got worse and worse. The good side of him grew smaller and smaller, and the bad side of him grew bigger and bigger, until he became more evil then all the villains in the world combined. The future we come from is horrible. Have you guys ever heard of the Negaverse?"

All the operatives nodded.

"Numbuh 4's opposite had a goatee." giggled Kuki "It was really funny looking."

"Imagine the Negaverse times eleventy- buhmillion." said Numbuh 17 "That's how terrible it is back home."

"We do the best we can to fight back." said Numbuh 16 sadly. "But it's really hard. The Numbuhless One is really strong."

"The Numbuhless One?" asked Rachael "Why do you call him the Numbuhless One?"

Numbuh 16 shrugged. "Dunno." she said "We just started calling him that, cause we didn't know what his Numbuh was when he was in the KND, and the name stuck. He even calls himself that now."

"What happened to his wife?" asked Sonya "Did she turn evil too?"

"We…" mumbled Numbuh 18 "We don't like to talk about that."

Rachael almost pushed the subject, but decided against it when she saw the pain in the future operatives eyes.

"Okay." said Rachael "You obviously got here by a time machine –"

"Portal." said Numbuh 18 "Time portal."

"Portal then." said Rachael. "How did you build it? Who built it? The scientists in the KND Lab told me that they believe that time travel is impossible."

"I built it." said Numbuh 18 as she tugged nervously on her pink sweater. "It was really hard."

"How?" asked Hoagie eagerly. "Boy, I'd love to try to make one!"

"Sorry." said Numbuh 18 "But that information is classified. Our Soopreme Commander Numbuh 788 told me I couldn't make one unless I swore never to tell anyone how to make it."

"I don't even know." said Numbuh 19. "And Becca tells me everything. We're best friends!"

"Becca?" asked Wally "Who the crud is Becca?"

"That's my real name." said Numbuh 18

"What's your last name?" asked Nigel curiously. Becca chose to ignore him.

"Why don't you guys tell them your real names too?" suggested Becca to her teammates. Becca hoped that it would take Nigel's mind off the subject of her last name.

"I'm Ben." said Numbuh 17.

"I'm Lily." said Numbuh 19 happily.

"Ross." said Numbuh 15 "and this shorty here is Chelsea." Numbuh 16 rolled her eyes.

"I'm not that short Numbuh 15." said Chelsea "It's not my fault you're freakishly tall!"

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"SHUT UP!" Ben and Nigel yelled at the same time.

"Cool it people." said Lee

"Everyone listen up." said Rachael. "We need to figure out where these kids are going to stay, and then I need to tell you about the mission I was going to assign you. I assume," Rachael turned to face the future Sector V "that as KND operatives you want to help?"

Future Sector V looked at each other.

"Why not." shrugged Ben "We might as well."

"Good." said Rachael. "We need all the help we can get. Sector V or W is there any place you can fit these operatives?"

"Usually we could put them in the main room." said Harvey "But that battle with Mega Mom destroyed it."

"I guess we could fit them into our main room." said Nigel "We'll need a couple of mattresses though."

"We recently refreshed our mattress supply at Moonbase." said Rachael. "I'll call Numbuh 86 and have her bring down some mattresses."

Rachael walked to the front of the room and turned so she could face everyone at once.

"Now that that's taken care of," said Rachael "I need to tell you about the mission. For this particular mission Sectors V and W will be working together as one team."

"Rachael." whined Harvey "You never told me I'd have to work with Nigel Uno."

Sonya, Lee, and Paddy winced at the contempt in Numbuh 363's voice when he said Numbuh 1's name.

"I'm not looking forward to it any more then you are." mumbled Nigel.

Rachael put a hand on her forehead. "Can you guys please get along for one mission?"

Harvey looked at Nigel. Nigel looked at Harvey.

"I guess." said Nigel as he turned to look at Rachael.

"Fat chance." sneered Harvey.

"Fine." said Rachael "I'll assign another sector to work with Sector V. You can go back to your tree house Numbuh 363."

"No way!" said Harvey "I'm not missing out on this mission because of Nigel Uno!"

"Then you have to at least attempt to get along with him okay?" Rachael looked at Harvey until he nodded unhappily.

"Good." said Rachael. "Earlier this week Sector E managed to intercept a transmission from Father to the Delightful Children. Unfortunately, it was incomplete, due to the large security measures used during the call. I have it with me now, and I would like you to listen to it." Rachael pulled a recorder from her pocket and pressed play.

"… delightful … Father...finish …changes … destru… achine…ather … …ids next do… destroyed… est invention … complete … sent …spy… …Sector V… know nothing."

"What the crud does all that stuff mean?" asked Numbuh 4

Rachael shrugged. "We don't know."

"It doesn't sound that great." said Harvey

"Why do we need both Sectors V and W for this mission?" asked Nigel "Father is a formidable opponent, but we have taken him down several times without assistance."

Rachael sighed. "At first I was going to send just you guys." she admitted. "But just yesterday we received a message from Sector Q that was very worrying." Rachel sighed again. "I had sent Sector Q on a reconnaissance mission to discover as much as we could about what Father was planning before I sent in Sector V. They were supposed to report back two days ago."

"What happened to them?" asked Ben.

Rachael shrugged again. "We don't know for sure." she said "But we have a theory."

Rachael took out another recorder from her pocket. "This is a copy of the message sent to us from Sector Q."

She hit the play button. Immediately a male's voice came from the object, talking very quickly.

"Kids Next Door Moonbase, this is Numbuh 420 of Sector Q. During our Reconnaissance mission we had barely stepped onto the property when Father managed to capture us before we could call for help. Father knew so much about our planned mission that we believe he has a spy planted in the KND. Father has built a huge factory. This factory is well protected, there's no way a single team could penetrate it. Father is very concerned with security because he has combined his aging ray with the delightfulization process, to create a giant machine that will turn children into delightfulized adults. He plans to use this machine on the entire world. Currently it is incomplete, but it'll be working soon. And most importantly we've discovered he has a –"

"It stops there." said Rachael.

Lily gasped. "Guys!" she said frantically to her team. "Oh no. Oh no no no."

"What?" asked Ross "What's wrong?"

"Didn't you hear?" asked Lily "Weren't you listening?"

Becca gasped. "Oh no. It's starting isn't it? It's starting."

Ben shifted closer to Chelsea. Ross put a hand over his mouth. Chelsea hid her head in her hands.

The other KND operatives looked at them curiously.

"You know about this?" asked Nigel

Future Sector V completely ignored him.

"We're gonna…" Ben's voice cracked. "go talk about this. Go ahead and talk about the mission. Sector V can fill us in."

And with that, future Sector V ran from the room.

Oooooo… cliffhanger….

Check out a picture I made of future Sector V here: h t t p : / / t h e f l y i n g r e d p a n d a . d e v i a n t a r t . c o m / a r t / T h e - F u t u r e - S e c t o r - V - 1 2 8 6 5 9 1 7 5

There shouldn't be any spaces... fanfiction won't let me type it in the right way.